Impression or transfer device.



C. H. BRIGHT, In. IMPRESS'ION 0R TRANSFER DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.14, 1912.

Patented July 21, 1914.

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CLAUDE H. BRIGHT, an, or

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

IMPRESSION OR TRANSFER DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 21, 1914.

Application filed December 14, 1912. Serial No. 736,780.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLAUDE H. BRIGHT, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Memphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented new and useful Improvements in Impression or Transfer Devices, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to an impression or transfer device for use in bookkeeping and accounting, for the transfer of figures or items from one book, such as a cash book, to another book, such as a ledger, the object of the invention being to provide a device of this character whereby transfers may be readily madeand errors conveniently detected.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the construction and indicating the mode of use of the transfer proving device. Fig. 2 is a view of a portion of the impression or proving web as it appears after the entries have been made thereon.

Referring to Fig. 1, F designates a base plate provided upon the bottom thereof with a layer f of suitable anti-slipping material,

' such as blotting paper, said plate being provided at one end with an aperture f. Supported from the body of the base plate by springs fa is a suitable depressible handle G, maintained normally at a determined elevation by the springs. This handle is provided with an arm 9 extending from one end thereof and carrying a guide or platen plate g normally supported thereby above the aperture f. Rising from this guide or platen plate are bracket arms g and g provided with spindles on which are revolubly mounted spools g and g Carried by the spool g is a web H of impressionable material, arranged in roll form on the primary spool g and adapted to wind therefrom beneath or through the guide g onto the secondary roll 9 the portion of the paper between the rolls being exposed above the aperture 1" so as to be brought into contact with an underlying surface when the handle G is depressed. The spool g is provided with an annular series of ratchet teeth 9 adapted to be engaged by a spring pawl or dog 9 on the base plate F. When the handle is depressed the tooth of the dog rides over the ratchet teeth, and when the handle is released and the guide or platen plate 5 teeth and turns book to a ledger,

is returned to normal position by the springs fa, the dog engages the ratchet the spool g a certain distance to wind up a determined portion of the web thereon, whereby a new portion of the web will be exposed for use. If desired, the spools may have sufficient frictional engagement with their spindles to prevent any excessive movement thereof, or suitable check pawls or other devices may be provided for this purpose, in order to hold the exposed portion of the web above the aperture f taut.

The proving web H is made of paper cloth, or other suitable material sensitized, chemically treated or made of an absorbent nature so as to receive impressions from written or printed items upon a surface.

For convenience in explaining one mode of using my transfer device, it may be assumed that the web H is made of a comparatively thin body of paper or other absorbent material capable, like a blotter, of taking up ink, so that it may he used for the dual purposes of blotting the figure entries made upon the pages of a ledger and to be impressed thereby so as to show such entries, with the figures of the entries in proper order, therethrough. With this understanding, as exemplifying one mode of carrying my proving method into operation, the process of obtaining a proof of any number of entries transferred or posted from a cash book to a ledger will now be explained. Assuming that the bookkeeper or accountant is making a transfer of item from a cash the transfer proving device is successively rested upon the pages of the ledger to which the transfers are successively made and as each item is entered, and while the ink is still wet, the exposed surface of the sheet H is brought into proper position above the same and the handle G then depressed and released, whereby the impression web is brought into contact with the still moist entry cessive ink therefrom, by which a duplicate of the entry is made thereon so as to show therethrough. This operation is carried out as each entry is made, so that such entries will appear in regular columnar order on the impression web, as illustrated in Fig. 2, it being understood, of course, that each time an impression is made and the handle Gr released the web H will be fed up to exand takes up the ex-.

pose a new portion to receive an impression, a specified distance beneath the preceding impression. It will therefore be readily understood that the impression sheet will show in a single column an exact duplicate of the various entries made at different points in the ledger, so that upon adding up this column of figures and. that contained in the cash book any discrepancies thatmay exist betweeen the totals found will show that an error in transferring or posting the :figures from the cash book to the ledger has been made, and upon comparing the items in regular order the page of the ledger containing the account in which the error rectly transferred or posted from the cash book to the ledger.

While I have in the present instance de-l scribed the use of my device in transferring items from a cash book to a ledger, it will, of course,, be understood that the invention .islnot limitedthereto, but may be employed in proving vfigures or matter of anykind of the supporting turning one ofsaid rolls to wind ,up the 1. An impression or transfer device come prising a supporting at one end depressed below the plane thereof, means for yieldingly supporting said supporting plate, means for depressing the same, web carryingrolls mounted upon and arranged at opposite sides of said offset, said rolls being adapted -.for the transfer of .an impressionweb from one roll to'the other, and means actuated by the depression P a f r nt rmit y web thereon. p 1 1 p '2. An impression or transfer device comprising a plate having an extension at one end offset below the plane thereof, ,a spring for yieldin-gly supporting said plate, a. handle for depressing the same against the resistanceof said spring, brackets carried by and arranged on opposite sides of said eX- tension, rolls ournaled on said brackets, said rolls being adapted v for the transfer of plate having an offset;

a web of; mpression material from one roll to the other, and pawl and ratchet meehanism adapted to be actuated by the depression of the plate for mterhiittently turning oneof said rolls to Wind up the web thereon. In testimony. whereofl afli xmy. signature in pr fi en e o- 'tw Wi ne es LA DE BRIGH Witnesses: i I

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